How To Test Lipstick Denver CO

Steps

1. Rub a small amount of lipstick across a part of open skin, preferably your hand.
2. Wipe a gold ring [or any jewelry made of gold] on it.
3. Wait for about a minute or two. If the color turns black, then immediately throw the lipstick away. The lipsticks that you want to test are old ones, they don't make lipstick with lead anymore, but many from years past can be very dangerous.
4. If there is no color change, then your lipstick is fine.

Tips

• The lipstick will not turn black immediately. If it doesn't change within a minute or so, then it is fine.
• Similar to other makeup, lipstick does have a shelf life, and should be discarded after 6 months.

Warnings

• "This claim appears to be drawn from an old alchemist's trick of testing the purity of gold by rubbing ore on a dark stone (often containing lead) and comparing the streak with another of known quality. However, the process does not work in reverse. Even if it did, there would not be a large enough concentration of lead in a strip of lipstick to produce a visible change. Real, reliable detection of lead in a product requires rigorous scientific testing, and cannot be achieved "on the cheap" using normal household products."

Things You'll Need

• Lipstick
• Gold ring (or any other gold jewelry)

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